1890 Boston Beaneaters

Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1889 / 1891

76-57, Finished 5th in National League (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Frank Selee (76-57)
Scored 763 runs, Allowed 593 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 82-51

Ballparks: South End Grounds II · Attendance: 147,539 (1st)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 108, Pitching - 105 · one-year: Batting - 110, Pitching - 107

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1889 / 1891 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Game Results

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Team Batting

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Charlie Bennett	35	85	355	281	59	60	17	2	3	40	6		72	56	.214	.377	.320	.698	97	90		2
2	1B	Tommy Tucker#	26	132	620	539	104	159	17	8	1	62	43		56	22	.295	.387	.362	.749	111	195		25
3	2B	Pop Smith	33	134	552	463	82	106	16	12	1	53	39		80	81	.229	.353	.322	.675	91	149		9
4	SS	Herman Long*	24	101	475	431	95	108	15	3	8	52	49		40	34	.251	.320	.355	.675	90	153		4
5	3B	Chippy McGarr	27	121	525	487	68	115	12	7	1	51	39		34	38	.236	.291	.296	.587	66	144		4
6	OF	Paul Hines	35	69	309	273	41	72	12	3	2	48	9		32	20	.264	.350	.352	.701	98	96		4
7	OF	Marty Sullivan	27	121	561	505	82	144	19	7	6	61	33		56	48	.285	.357	.386	.743	109	195		0
8	OF	Steve Brodie*	21	132	591	514	77	152	19	9	0	67	29		66	20	.296	.387	.368	.755	113	189		11
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	UT	Bobby Lowe	24	52	235	207	35	58	13	2	2	21	15		26	32	.280	.366	.391	.757	113	81		2
10	UT	Lou Hardie	25	47	203	185	17	42	8	0	3	17	4		18	36	.227	.296	.319	.614	73	59		0
11	UT	Charlie Ganzel	28	38	170	163	21	44	7	3	0	24	1		5	6	.270	.300	.350	.650	83	57		2
12	OF	Patsy Donovan*	25	32	150	140	17	36	0	0	0	9	10		8	17	.257	.307	.257	.564	59	36		2
13	UT	Al Schellhase	25	9	30	29	1	4	0	0	0	1	0		1	10	.138	.167	.138	.305	-14	4		0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
14	P	Kid Nichols#	20	49	186	174	18	43	5	1	0	23	2		11	36	.247	.296	.287	.583	65	50		1
15	P	John Clarkson	28	45	182	173	18	43	6	3	2	26	2		8	31	.249	.286	.353	.638	80	61		1
16	P	Pretzels Getzien	26	41	165	147	27	34	9	2	2	25	4		16	25	.231	.315	.361	.676	90	53		2
17	P	John Taber	22	2	6	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
18	P	Al Lawson	21	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	-4	0		0
19	P	Tony Von Fricken#	21	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
		Team Totals	27.1	134	5321	4722	763	1220	175	62	31	580	285		530	515	.258	.342	.341	.683	93	1612		69
		Rank in 8 NL teams				4	4	4	4	5	3		6	1	1	1	6	3	6	5		6		1		1
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Kid Nichols	20	27	19	.587	2.23	48	47	1	47	7	0	424.0	374	175	105	8	112		222	11	0	30	1755	168	1.146	7.9	0.2	2.4	4.7	1.98
2	SP	John Clarkson	28	26	18	.591	3.27	44	44	0	43	2	0	383.0	370	186	139	14	140		138	16	0	21	1663	115	1.332	8.7	0.3	3.3	3.2	0.99
3	SP	Pretzels Getzien	26	23	17	.575	3.19	40	40	0	39	4	0	350.0	342	201	124	5	82		140	3	0	8	1466	117	1.211	8.8	0.1	2.1	3.6	1.71
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
4		John Taber	22	0	1	.000	4.15	2	1	1	1	0	1	13.0	11	8	6	0	8		3	0	1	0	58	93	1.462	7.6	0.0	5.5	2.1	0.38
5		Al Lawson	21	0	1	.000	4.00	1	1	0	1	0	0	9.0	12	7	4	0	4		1	0	0	0	43	98	1.778	12.0	0.0	4.0	1.0	0.25
6		Tony Von Fricken	21	0	1	.000	10.13	1	1	0	1	0	0	8.0	23	16	9	0	8		2	0	0	1	55	39	3.875	25.9	0.0	9.0	2.3	0.25
		Team Totals	24.4	76	57	.571	2.93	134	134	2	132	13	1	1187.0	1132	593	387	27	354		506	30	1	60	5040	128	1.252	8.6	0.2	2.7	3.8	1.43
		Rank in 8 NL teams		5	4		2				1	1	4	4	5	1	2	3	1		3
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Pos. Summary
Charlie Bennett	35	85		561	448	90	23	8	.959	6.33	9		137	88	39%		C
Steve Brodie	21	132		256	225	19	12	6	.953	1.85							OF
John Clarkson	28	45		111	22	72	17	3	.847	2.09							P-OF
Patsy Donovan	25	32		55	45	4	6	1	.891	1.53							OF
Charlie Ganzel	28	41		201	151	42	8	5	.960	4.71	5		38	26	41%		C-OF-SS-2B
Pretzels Getzien	26	41		98	15	63	20	2	.796	1.90							P-OF
Lou Hardie	25	49		248	171	49	28	5	.887	4.49	19		42	32	43%		C-OF-3B-SS-1B
Paul Hines	35	70		143	123	4	16	2	.888	1.81							OF-1B
Al Lawson	21	1		2	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.00							P
Herman Long	24	101		648	230	352	66	40	.898	5.76							SS
Bobby Lowe	24	51		196	103	82	11	2	.944	3.63							SS-OF-3B
Chippy McGarr	27	121		433	160	243	30	15	.931	3.33							3B-SS-OF
Kid Nichols	20	50		114	15	85	14	1	.877	2.00							P-OF
Al Schellhase	25	9		28	18	5	5	0	.821	2.56	1		4	3	43%		OF-C-3B-SS
Pop Smith	33	135		697	236	403	58	41	.917	4.73							2B-SS
Marty Sullivan	27	121		271	242	16	13	1	.952	2.13							OF-3B
John Taber	22	2		5	0	5	0	0	1.000	2.50							P
Tommy Tucker	26	132		1409	1341	39	29	53	.979	10.45							1B
Tony Von Fricken	21	1		4	0	2	2	0	.500	2.00							P
Team Totals	27.1	134		5480	3545	1577	358	185	.935	4.20	34		221	149	40%
Rank in 8 NL teams							6	8	3
	Age	G	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Pos. Summary

Team Player Value--Batters

League Register · WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

	Age	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Acquired	Pos. Summary
Charlie Bennett	35	355	0	-2	0	0	13	6	11	28	2.8	15	1.5	1.3	$	Purchased	2
Steve Brodie*	21	591	17	-3	0	0	9	-9	17	31	2.9	22	2.2	0.7	$	Purchased	*O
John Clarkson	28	182	-7	-1	0	0	-1	5	6	2	0.3	3	0.3	0.0	$	Purchased	1/O
Patsy Donovan*	25	150	-8	0	0	0	-4	-2	4	-10	-0.9	-6	-0.6	-0.3	$		O
Charlie Ganzel	28	170	-3	-1	0	0	3	1	5	5	0.5	2	0.2	0.3	$	Purchased	2O/64
Pretzels Getzien	26	165	-3	0	0	0	0	4	5	6	0.7	6	0.6	0.1	$	Assigned--by lg	1/O
Lou Hardie	25	203	-9	-2	0	0	-4	1	6	-8	-0.7	-4	-0.4	-0.3	$		2O/536
Paul Hines	35	309	1	-2	0	0	-8	-4	9	-4	-0.4	4	0.4	-0.8	$		O/3
Al Lawson	21	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$		/1
Herman Long*	24	475	-6	5	0	0	6	7	13	25	2.5	19	1.9	0.6	$	Purchased	*6
Bobby Lowe	24	235	3	0	0	0	1	1	7	12	1.1	11	1.1	0.0	$		6O5
Chippy McGarr	27	525	-23	2	0	0	9	4	15	7	1.0	-2	-0.2	1.2	$		*5/6O
Kid Nichols#	20	186	-10	-2	0	0	0	5	6	-1	0.0	-1	-0.1	0.1	$	Purchased	1/O
Al Schellhase	25	30	-5	0	0	0	0	0	1	-4	-0.4	-4	-0.4	0.0	$		/O256
Pop Smith	33	552	-5	1	0	0	7	3	17	23	2.4	16	1.6	0.8	$	Purchased	*4/6
Marty Sullivan	27	561	7	-1	0	0	8	-8	15	21	2.1	13	1.3	0.8	$		*O/5
John Taber	22	6	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2	-0.2	-2	-0.2	0.0	$		/1
Tommy Tucker#	26	620	16	0	0	0	6	0	17	39	3.7	33	3.3	0.4	$	Purchased	*3
Tony Von Fricken#	21	3	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$		/1
Team Total	27.1	5321	-38	-6	0	0	45	14	154	169	17.3	124	12.4	4.9	$
	Age	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Acquired	Pos. Summary

Team Player Value--Pitchers

League Register · WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

	Age	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Acquired
John Clarkson	28	383.0	44	186	276	10	1.0	90	7.8	$	Purchased
Pretzels Getzien	26	350.0	40	201	252	9	1.0	51	4.5	$	Assigned--by lg
Al Lawson	21	9.0	1	7	6	0	1.0	-1	0.0	$
Kid Nichols	20	424.0	47	175	305	11	1.0	130	11.2	$	Purchased
John Taber	22	13.0	1	8	9	0	1.0	1	0.1	$
Tony Von Fricken	21	8.0	1	16	6	0	1.0	-10	-0.9	$
Team Total	24.4	1187.0	134	593	854	30	1.0	261	22.7	$
	Age	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Acquired

1889 / 1891 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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